The father of a murdered 5-year-old girl was hauled out of a Washington court Monday after he reportedly lunged at his daughter’s accused killer. Ryan Burge, 37, is accused of causing severe head trauma that eventually killed his girlfriend’s daughter, Hartley Anderson, on Friday while her mother worked and her siblings were at school. Though Burge …
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A Florida man who fatally shot his girlfriend and her 10-year-old son on Sunday claimed he carried out the double slaying during an argument over television and football, police said. The Tampa Bay Times reported that Tyron Terell Johnson, 42, called 911 Sunday evening and said he opened fire on two people “because he was being attacked” …
An Oklahoma-based dentist who fatally beat his mistress’ 19-month-old son and hired a hitman to kill the mistress as he awaited trial learned his fate on Friday. KOCO reported that Bert Franklin was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the July 2016 first-degree murder of Lincoln Lewis. He was also sentenced to life in …
The grandmother of a 20-month-old girl is in custody after Mississippi deputies reportedly found the toddler’s body in an oven, with stab wounds. The Clarion Ledger reported that the toddler girl’s body was taken to a crime lab to undergo an autopsy. The grandmother’s identity is unknown at this point in time as she hasn’t …
Authorities in Mississippi are investigating following reports that someone stabbed a baby before placing them into an oven—baking them. WTVA reported that emergency crews were called to a residence in Shaw at around 7 p.m. Monday. Responding officers reportedly found the baby, whose age was undisclosed, at the scene. How do you protect your children …
Authorities said a Tennesee man who allegedly beat his girlfriend in the head with a brick before repeatedly running her over with a car has taken his own life while in custody. WHBQ reported that Santrez Traylor, 34, was found unresponsive in his jail cell Saturday afternoon, nearly a week after he repeatedly mowed over the …
A Utah man suspected in the 2012 abduction, rape, and murder of a 6-year-old girl learned his fate in court last week. Deseret News reports that a judge sentenced 47-year-old Terry Lee Black on Thursday to 25 years to life for aggravated murder, 15 years to life for child kidnapping, and 25 years to life …
An Ohio man who was 15 when he tried to rape his 94-year-old neighbor as he beat her to death with a flashlight learned his fate this week. A Trumbull County judge on Friday sentenced Jacob LaRosa, now 19, to life in prison without parole for the March 2015 robbery, attempted rape, and murder of Marie Belcastro. …
A newly-released report by Ohio Department of Job and Family Services identified multiple failures in the case of Aniya Day, the 4-year-old girl who was allegedly beaten and starved to death by her mother and her boyfriend in March. According to WEWS, a 21-page report accused the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services of repeatedly disregarding …
Three Tennesee teens will be tried as adults in May’s fatal beating of an elderly laundromat worker who they allegedly attacked as they vandalized and robbed the business. The Montgomery County Grand Jury indicted Jevon Brodie, 15, Tavares Harbison, 14, and Harrison Smith, 15, on first-degree murder charges in connection with an attack on Ted Cook, …
A Kansas mother was reportedly working to get away from her abusive husband before he allegedly shot her dead and turned the gun on himself this past weekend. According to People, Kristin Gile, 33, and her father had gone to her former home Saturday to pick up some belongings when her husband Randy Gile II, 33, arrived …
